Tag Archives: testing

Testing mail servers with swaks

I hadn’t seen this tool before so I fig­ured I would share. Swaks is the swiss army knife SMTP accord­ing to the home­page. I’ve cov­ered test­ing email from the com­mand line before but this tool sure makes it easier.

April 16, 2009 – 11:45 am | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Testing Email Manually with Telnet (spoofing email)

Being able to send email man­u­ally seems to be a bit of a lost art. It is extremely handy to know how to use tel­net to send email for test­ing proc­mail fil­ters, and any other part of your mail sys­tem. It can also be fun to spoof email to a friend or co-worker. Read on …

April 6, 2008 – 11:15 am | By Nick Anderson | Posted in Posts | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (6)